I'm using an Xbox Series Controller and it works fine. Which controller do you use?

Try unchecking and rechecking it in big picture mode. You will have to do this with xbox controllers.

I'm having trouble too, with an Xbox One controller connect via Bluetooth. My controller isn't being recognized by the game at all.

I rolled back to one of the previous versions and it works fine there.

I'm having the same issue, my xinput controller is no longer recognised.

same, xbone controller!

I just tried it with my retrobit sega saturn controller and nothing on that either. This is a wired version, straight usb.

I am using a 8BitDo Pro2 and also having issues. controller is not recognized by the game - other games work just fine...

Can confirm both my wireless xbox one controller and wired Sega Saturn RetroBit controller work with every other game except this one. Update borked controller usage making the game useless

gg

Glad I'm not the only one suffering this problem. I have to replug my XBox controller to a different USB port every time I starts the game to get it to work. Hope this gets fixed soon.

yup, same issue. xbone bluetooth dead

Same. No controller at all.

Confirmed, having this same issue. Using wired Xbox 350/One controller. Changing settings/configuration in Steam does not help.

Confirmed this bug as well. Tried the update for a few days without issues, yet today the controller (Xbox 360 wired controller) no longer seems to work with this game in particular, unless I unplug and plug the controller back in while in game, then it seems to work but it has to be done every single time the game is launched. Already tried changing settings in-game, steam controller configuration, verifying local files, reinstalling the game, deleting saves and none of these fixes this issue.

EDIT

More into this issue: Tried the game with another Xbo360/One third-party wired controller and it works without issues. From what I can gather, the game seems to have issues in recognizing controllers on startup if these have been disconected in any way midgame. Also, the legacy version of the game seems to recognize all controllers just fine, so maybe its an issue with the current game engine?

EDIT 2

Not sure if this is related, but I've noticed there is a bug in which the option menu freezes completely so Alt-Tab must be used in order to force close the game. This seems to happen if I try to cycle among the different CTR filter options a little too fast.

I got a copy of this game through a means that rhymes with abhorrent and it works on older versions, so something about this update totally nuked controller use.